Word: earned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...make their living almost exclusively by capitalizing their reputation at tennis. But since the Committee does not believe that any player can support himself by printing wholes books on tennis, this is still to be permitted. Tennis for the amateur must be strictly an avocation; but a player may earn small sums on the side...
...asked for a $60,000 endowment. There is probably some mistake in the announcement that the income from this sum would support it in perpetuity (six concerts per year) but there is clear indication of the flatness of London song when such a paltry sum (Galli-Curci would earn it in ten nights) stands between London and the best music...
...Martin-Harvey's troup of actors, which opens a four weeks engagment at the Boston Opera House on November 25, is seeking 100 super numeraries for its Boston performances and is seeking them at the University Any student who cares to participate in the performances and who cares to earn the regular remuneration paid to supernumeraries, should apply to Mr. B. F. Lang at the Boston Opera House next Thursday afternoon between 4 and 6 o'clock...
...life was a matter of work; much of it, according to his own testimony, at the rate of 18 hours a day. He is the kind of a man who says and means: " The only way I know in which anyone can have an easy life is to earn it by the hardest possible kind of work...
Never have higher standards of symphonic performance been required. They are achieved only by much rehearsing. Especially do new works, the sign of life and progress in an orchestra, require rehearsals. A symphony orchestra player will earn over $100 a week, which, for a band of 100 men, constitutes a sizable outlay...